Bret Mulligan

Fluky F1-2 to start, slowly building to F2-3 but with significant lulls. Ride was running and so abandoned north of Ben Franklin to conduct maneuvers S of USS NJ. A Good Samaritan tried to rescue BoB while conducting MOB maneuvers. Sterned into space and used Pavosier (?) through spin shackle and powered forward. Would have worked better around forward spin block or winch.

Nice day. Started very light and was difficult to make progress agains flood. Eventually stiffened to F3 and sailed to Walt Whitman. Still flooding 1 hour after notional slack which helped run back.

Great sail! Beat down past Walt Whitman again Erin storm surge added tide. FAST run back (8+). Ran marks near Petty as wind built. Reefed just in time as wind built towards F5 and sea state increased.

2-1-4-4. Started last in R1 but made up places in D1. Dominated R2. R3 marred by leeward rounding. Dropped Spin too late then jibbed before it was in. Needed to beat away to recover and lost 2 places. Last race was a silly W1.